Tom Hagen went to his law office in the city on Thursday morning. He planned
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- Never says anything against you. You couldn't help him a bit? Why not? He sings
- Hagen sat behind the desk and made notes. The Don heaved a sigh and asked,
- Hagen made a face of impressed approval that was very strangely Italian on
- When Johnny Fontane appeared in the garden, Kay Adams recognized him
- Favors. Someday he'll be at each one of those people's houses and they had
- Something special. Go your own way now, you're a man after all. But come to me
- Others into the sick man's room.
- Genco Abbandando had run a long race with death, and now, vanquished, he
- And criminal traitor to man.
- Spitball he was holding in his hand across to the clerk, who picked it up and
- Following Friday. But Hagen knew that to the Don, both were of equal importance,
- Any grown man could reasonably expect, and he found life interesting.
- Marines the day after Pearl Harbor.
- And his benefactor's blood family.
- Their lives or until they accepted defeat and returned to their home towns.
- Jack Woltz was a tall, powerfully built man with a heavy paunch almost
- A personal friend of mine. If I let him know I'm being pressured, you guys will
- Hagen listened patiently. He had expected better from a man of Woltz's stature.
- Than he had appeared this morning.
- Going to race him, I'm going to put him to stud. I'm going to build the greatest
- Much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the
- Make me ridiculous. A man in my position, Mr. Hagen, can't afford to look
- For the first time, Woltz succeeded in astounding Hagen. He found it
- Naturally, anxious to show their gratitude.
- Were one hundred thousand black Chevy sedans in New York City.
- Tom Hagen went to his law office in the city on Thursday morning. He planned
- Threat against Don Corleone himself. Genius had its rewards.
- Be made to tell who had done the buying.
- Producer of the film telling him to report for work the following Monday.
- For any rap as long as he knows that they will be well taken care of for living
- Notoriously straitlaced in matters of sex.
- Legal protection is a must. I hear, Don Corleone, that you have as many judges in
- His leather armchair and motioned brusquely for a drink. Hagen poured him a
- Without a shred of trust Hagen got into the car.
- Michael Corleone had lied to Hagen. He was already in New York, and he had
- Worrying Sonny Corleone out in Long Beach.
- At a quarter to five that afternoon, Don Corleone had finished checking the
- Passed. They disappeared around the corner, leaving Freddie alone in the street
- In the half hour after the shooting of his father, Sonny Corleone received five
- It was Clemenza. The fat man's voice came wheezing over the phone in
- His mother looked at him steadily for a moment and then asked in Italian,
- Could be but one outcome. But again the nagging worry. Where was Luca Brasi?
- Counting the driver, there were four men in the car with Hagen. They put him
- And suddenly Hagen knew that he was no longer going to be set free. That
- When Michael Corleone arrived at his father's house in Long Beach he found
- Young to know about it and then things got pretty smooth while you were
- Want it to be Paulie either.
- Don't care if we have to fight all the five families in New York. The Tattaglia Family
- It was nearly four o'clock in the morning as they all sat in the corner room
- Brasi's number and kept the receiver to his ear as it rang and rang.
To catch up on his paper work so as to have everything cleared away for the
Meeting with Virgil Sollozzo on Friday. A meeting of such importance that he had
Asked the Don for a full evening of talk to prepare for the proposition they knew
Sollozzo would offer the family business. Hagen wanted to have all little details
Cleared away so that he could go to that preparatory meeting with an
Unencumbered mind.
The Don had not seemed surprised when Hagen returned from California late
Tuesday evening and told him the results of the negotiations with Woltz. He had
Made Hagen go over every detail and grimaced with distaste when Hagen told
about the beautiful little girl and her mother. He had murmured " infamita," his
strongest disapproval. He has asked Hagen one final question. "Does this man
have real balls?"
Hagen considered exactly what the Don meant by this question. Over the years
He had learned that the Don's values were so different from those of most people
That his words also could have a different meaning. Did Woltz have character?
Did he have a strong will? He most certainly did, but that was not what the Don
Was asking. Did the movie producer have the courage not to be bluffed? Did he
Have the willingness to suffer heavy financial loss delay on his movies would
Mean, the scandal of his big star exposed as a user of heroin? Again the answer
Was yes. But again this was not what the Don meant. Finally Hagen translated the
Question properly in his mind. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to
run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for
Revenge?
Hagen smiled. He did it rarely but now he could not resist jesting with the Don.
"You're asking if he is a Sicilian." The Don nodded his head pleasantly,
acknowledging the flattering witticism and its truth. "No," Hagen said.
That had been all. The Don had pondered the question until the next day. On
Wednesday afternoon he had called Hagen to his home and given him his
Instructions. The instructions had consumed the rest of Hagen's working day and
Left him dazed with admiration. There was no question in his mind that the Don
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Had solved the problem, that Woltz would call him this morning with the news
That Johnny Fontane had the starring part in his new war movie.
At that moment the phone did ring but it was Amerigo Bonasera. The
Undertaker's voice was trembling with gratitude. He wanted Hagen to convey to
The Don his undying friendship. The Don had only to call on him. He, Amerigo
Bonasera, would lay down his life for the blessed Godfather. Hagen assured him
That the Don would be told.
7 The Daily News had carried a middle-page spread of Jerry Wagner and Kevin
Moonan lying in the street. The photos were expertly gruesome, they seemed to
Be pulps of human beings. Miraculously, said the News, they were both still alive
Though they would both be in the hospital for months and would require plastic
Surgery. Hagen made a note to tell Clemenza that something should be done for
Paulie Gatto. He seemed to know his job.
Hagen worked quickly and efficiently for the next three hours consolidating
Earning reports from the Don's real estate company, his olive oil importing
Business and his construction firm. None of them were doing well but with the
War over they should all become rich producers. He had almost forgotten the
Johnny Fontane problem when his secretary told him California was calling. He
felt a little thrill of anticipation as he picked up the phone and said, "Hagen here."
The voice that came over the phone was unrecognizable with hate and passion.
"You fucking bastard," Woltz screamed. "I'll have you all in jail for a hundred
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